I often want to just laugh out loud when watching the news on TV at the way reporters refer to burglars, robbers, and all flavors of bandits as 'suspects' regardless of the circumstances.
The other night a lady reporter was standing on the curb outside a Houston home where the homeowner had shot and killed a burglar. She called the burglar 'the suspect'.
An example of the limited vocabulary of these reporters is this story. The burglar that was shot dead by the homeowner was crawling under a partially opened garage door in the middle of the night when he was caught by the homeowner and shot dead, partially inside the garage and partially outside.
Once he gets inside the man's home, he ceases being a suspect and becomes a burglar. There is no need for a court verdict, there is no need he be formally charged with burglary, this guy became a burglar. Then he became a dead burglar, No longer a suspect.
But can these reporters make that transition? Hell no! I suppose they have decided that if they just call everyone a suspect, they're safe.
It may be too difficult to ask them to be too exact. Notice how they look down at their cellphones for notes while giving the live report. Looking up, looking down, up and down. Hey, it's a 10-15 second report. That's just too much to memorize.
That's the way I see it.
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